Menopartners: The Guy's Guide to Surviving Menopause - Softcover

Pritchard, Christopher W.

9798998013218: Menopartners: The Guy's Guide to Surviving Menopause

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ISBN 13: 9798998013218

Publisher: PCS, 2026

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Every year, roughly 1.3 million American women reach menopause — and millions more move through the years of perimenopause leading up to it. The men who love them are along for the ride too, usually unprepared and often too awkward to even bring up the subject.

Menopartners is the book Christopher Pritchard wished existed twenty years ago, when he started reading over his wife's shoulder just to understand what she was going through. What began as one husband's makeshift education turned into decades of listening — and this guide, written specifically for men who want to be useful rather than useless during "the change."

Inside, you'll find: a plainspoken, no-jargon primer on perimenopause and menopause — what's actually happening, physically and emotionally, and why; 101 real, anonymized voices of women describing their own experiences, organized by symptom and theme, so you can recognize what you're seeing at home; practical, side-by-side "wrong way / right way" scripts for the moments that go sideways — what to say (and not say) when she snaps, when sex changes, when she needs space; a fully updated look at hormone therapy, cutting through two decades of conflicting headlines to the current medical consensus; a refreshed 2026 resource list of the organizations, books, and communities actually worth your time; and a glossary that won't put you to sleep — real definitions, plus a few jokes to keep you reading.

This isn't a medical textbook, and Pritchard doesn't pretend to be a doctor. It's one man's honest, occasionally irreverent, always well-intentioned field guide for the other guys going through this — because menopause changes us too, and showing up informed is the least we can do.

First published in 2003, Menopartners returns for 2026 with updated science, an updated resource list, and the same plain talk that made it useful the first time around.

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